Washington State in a Time of War AgentMarco Monologue
One relatively new, outta-nowhere media person I’ve taken note of lately has been Marco from QuadJacks. He definitely brings something different to the tournament-interview table … and now seems to be...
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Congressman’s Wife Charged, Convicted for Role in Online Gambling Crimes
Drawing: Jane Flavell Collins Patrice Tierney entered into a plea deal with the US Attorney’s Office in Boston wherein she admits to being “willfully blind” to the nature of her brother’s online...
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Poker Raid in South Carolina: 1 Player, 1 Cop Shot Violent standoff and hefty...
A relatively routine raid of a low-stakes poker game in Greenville, South Carolina turned bloody yesterday night — as police tried to gain entry to a poker house. The game host, now known to be Aaron...
View ArticleArmed Robbery in Michigan Poker Room [Video] Microstakes charity violence at...
What looks to have been a rookie armed robbery of a min-stakes poker game in Michigan caught on video … just like EPT Berlin … you know, if PokerStars ran live events in the $30 to $40 buy-in range...
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The Difference Between Online Casinos and Fully Legal Land-based Gambling Halls
A sign seen in the new Aviator Casino, in Delano, California, reminding me of a difference between casinos regulated in lands we know well and virtual establishments based out of places that may or may...
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Brash Online Pro Headed to the Slammer
Carter Gill, 24, a top-ranked online poker pro, may be offline for a while, as he says heâ€ll be reluctantly turning himself in to authorities in Jefferson County, Oklahoma, to begin serving a 14-day...
View Article(Way Outside) the Epic Poker League – Day 1
The second Epic Poker League Main Event kicked off Tuesday afternoon with a field of 97 players, down 40 from the first event of the inaugural season. A crowded poker calendar with events in Barcelona,...
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Weekly Update from the PPA
The big news this week was, of course, the amending of the Department of Justice’s online poker civil suit claiming that Full Tilt Poker was engaged in a “Ponzi scheme” that defrauded its players....
View ArticleDOJ Says Return of Player Funds “May Be Possible”
If you are out real American dollars in the Full Tilt Poker collapse, the US government is apparently your friend. That’s the message of Preet Bharara and the Department of Justice, who put out a...
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Feel the Shame
Jesse May OP-ED It didnt’t really bother me when Poker Spot folded, because that guy had history. And I laughed about the money Aces Poker stole, because anyone who trusted them couldn’t ever spot a...
View ArticleDOJ Response to Black Friday Response: LOL
The DOJ has laid out more of its case against Isai Scheinberg, Ray Bitar, et al — in a 58-page response to the response from two Black Friday indictees, payment processor Chad Elie and the Utah banker...
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Absolute Poker Owner Pleads Guilty, Expects Prison
My bad: Brent Beckley, guilty of online poker. DOJ prosecutors keep moving up their ladder of bad guys in the unlawful internet gambling case against Isai Scheinberg et al. Brent Beckley, the...
View Article(Another) Texas Poker Homicide
A Houston-area man got killed this past weekend at a poker game — after a fight broke out at what appears to be a family home game, and hosts ejected a supposedly uninvited player, who then returned...
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Ironic Hold’em?
Stumbled across this New York Times crossword puzzle from 2008, revealing a perception of shadiness that persisted well into the heyday of WSOP, Full Tilt, and PokerStars on TV: They did, of course,...
View ArticleMedia Named as Co-conspirator in Calvin Ayre Indictment
When Calvin Ayre got indicted this past week, some were wondering what took so long … because if the DOJ couldn’t nab the brashest of online gambling kingpins (Bodog did sports-betting for chrissakes!)...
View ArticleVegas Bookie to Plea Not Guilty of Federal Money Crimes
Paul Sexton (no relation to Mike) is a former Full Tilt player accused of running money for an illegal online sports gambling ring. [GPI profile] A lawyer for a former Cantor Gaming executive charged...
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Vegas Grinders: Thug Living
Hmmm … I wonder if I’m a lark or an owl … I’ve joked since even before this show began that guys like Andrew ran with a bunch of thugs — grinder thugs I like to call them, for the way they go after...
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Duke of Fremont Set to Face Assailants
Duke of Fremont OPINIONI will be personally appearing before Judge J. Bixler at the sentencing hearing of Edmond Paul Price at 8:30am in room 10C at the Clark County District Court Regional Justice...
View ArticlePoker Justice: 7 years for killing a cheater
We should probably be sadder because someone died and poker had everything to do with it. But at the same time … man hosts poker game, catches brother cheating, shoots brother in the chest and kills...
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